You would think that, in order to avoid worsening the border crisis by not properly preparing for what lies ahead, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would do its best to accurately gauge what it will be up against before setting its budget for next year, right?
Evidently not. In a budget report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, HHS admits it has no way of even guesstimating how many illegal immigrants will enter the country next year — but it’s still setting the budget, anyway:
The budget report says:
“Since FY 2011, the number of arriving UAC [unaccompanied alien children] has increased from 6,560 to an estimated 60.000 for FY 2014. AFC [Administration for Families and Children] has implemented strategies to reduce the cost per child, but total costs have risen dramatically as the number of UAC has increased.”
It continued, “Due to the volatile nature of this program, the Administration is not able to reliably predict the number of UAC who will arrive in FY 2015 at this time. The FY 2015 budget is therefore $868 million, the same as FY 2014.”
What? In what universe does it make sense for HHS to request the same amount of funding for FY 2015 as it had in FY 2014? Are they living under a rock? The number of UAC entering the country is expected to skyrocket next year, not to mention everyone and their mother on Capitol Hill has recognized that the border needs more funding; how much more funding is precisely what Congress is bickering about right now.
If Obamacare wasn’t proof enough, this is the nail in the coffin. HHS is incompetent, and it seems doubtful that it will be able to properly accommodate and deal with next year’s tidal wave of illegals.
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